Counsellor

2 weeks ago

Mount Wellington, New Zealand Habit Health Full time

Closing Date: 27/12/2024

**Job Type**: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Auckland - Mt Wellington - Te Kehu Way

Job Category: Health, Medical & Pharmaceutical

**Habit Health is a nationwide healthcare provider, specialising in the rehabilitation space. We enable people to live their best lives and empower our teams to realise their full potential.**

The Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) is part of the wider Habit Health Group. Our values are our people, enabling us to provide confidential services to employees across work/life issues. Our Sylvia park branch in Auckland is seeking an empathetic, experienced Counsellor for a fulfilling opportunity, giving you the tools you need to support people the way they deserve to be taken care of - the Habit Health way.

EAP Counselling is short-term intervention. Our Counsellors work on a broad range of mental health matters from couples counselling, addiction, trauma, child and adolescent counselling and dealing with grief - to name a few.

**Main responsibilities**:

- Deliver focused interventions so that clients ace coping mechanisms at work and life
- Visit worksites to provide support after an event disruption
- Deliver counselling services via in-person, video and telehealth
- Deliver training to customer employees

**The benefits of working with us**:

- Market competitive remuneration and annual reviews
- Role focuses on employee care and intervention - say goodbye to admin and paperwork
- Annual budget set aside for professional development / study
- All efforts made to provide you with the work / life balance that suits your needs
- Permanent full-time role with clear career progression
- Great team culture with regular social events, weekly treats, award schemes
- Well-being initiatives: annual eye exam, flu vaccination, access to EAP services
- A strong sense of others - we’re looking for sensitivity and empathy as traits
- Current APC with NZAC, DAPAANZ, SWRB or NZCCA
- Tertiary level 7 Counselling or related qualification and minimum five years of post-study experience is required.
- Experience in the following areas is desirable: psychological first aid, couples counselling and working with children and teenagers.
- Knowledge of evidence-based therapy models e.g. SFT, CBT, FACT is desirable
- Can work independently and attend on-sites for psychological first aid.
- Confidentiality is assured_

**Habit Health is an equal opportunity employer, dedicated to diversity hiring and providing a safe space to people of all cultures, languages, experiences and backgrounds.

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